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NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW – NORA
My first New York Times review today and it’s for my beloved NORA. Big thanks to Alida Becker. I’ve pasted the entire thing in below; a swift flavour though: ‘…Nora is entirely convincing in her raw sensuality, her stubborn determination, her powerful sense of grievance.’ Very pleased 🙂 NEW YORK TIMES – 16th March 2021…
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NORA REVIEW – TORONTO STAR
I love this review of NORA, from Janet Somerville in the Toronto Star. Big thanks to Janet, writer and literature teacher, who has written a book about the wonderful Martha Gellhorn.
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YouTube link for NORA online biofiction event
On 5th January 2021, to celebrate the USA launch day of NORA, I, along with fellow Irish author Eibhear Walshe – who wrote the wonderful The Last Days at Bowen’s Court about Elizabeth Bowen – did an online bio-fiction event with Columbia University, facilitated by scholar and author Heather Corbally Bryant. The event is online…
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Top Reads for 2021 – Sunday Independent
The Sunday Independent has included NORA in its Top Reads for 2021, which is rather lovely. Despite the subheading above – about ‘taking advantage of lockdown’ – it’s doubtful any of the books on this list were written last year. I finished writing NORA in early 2019, having started it in 2017, and since then…
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (P)REVIEWS NORA
I’m pleased with this (p)review of NORA, from Publisher’s Weekly: O’Connor (Becoming Belle) expands on her Granta award-winning short story, “Gooseen” in this poignant, comprehensive portrait of Nora Barnacle as a young woman, mother, and literary inspiration for the Molly Bloom character in Ulysses. Nora and James Joyce’s inseparable attachment begins in Dublin on June…